2 Table T2 - Ownership of Forest and Other wooded land

2.1 FRA 2005 Categories and definitions

Category	Definition
Private ownership	Land owned by individuals, families, private co-operatives, corporations, industries, religious and educational institutions, pension or investment funds, and other private institutions.
Public ownership	Land owned by the State (national, state and regional governments) or government-owned institutions or corporations or other public bodies including cities, municipalities, villages and communes.
Other ownership	Land that is not classified either as “Public ownership” or as “Private ownership”.

2.2 National data

2.2.1 Data sources

References to sources of information	Quality (H/M/L)	Variable(s)	Year(s)	Additional comments
ISTAT. 2002. Coltivazioni agricole, foreste e caccia. Settore Agricoltura Anno 1999.	L	Public forests and OWL; Private forests and OWL	1999
ISTAT. 1993. Statistiche Forestali. Annuario n.43, edizione 1993.	L	Public forests and OWL; Private forests and OWL	1990

2.2.2 Classification and definitions

The source documents provided the forest distribution according to the following ownership categories: state forest; private forest; municipalities’ forest and others institutions.

2.2.3 Original data

National classes	State (ha)	Municipalities (ha)	Others institutions (ha)	Private (ha)	Total
High forest	271 611	1 094 902	164 708	1 399 995	2 931 216
Coppice	197 141	755 249	189 609	2 585 867	3 727 866
Total forest Area	468 752	1 850 151	354 317	3 985 862	6 659 082

Source: Istat 1990

National classes	State (ha)	Municipalities (ha)	Others institutions (ha)	Private (ha)	Total
High forest	287 509	1 106 429	162 430	1 412 543	2 968 911
Coppice	199 963	754 615	188 825	2 600 462	3 743 865
Total forest	487 472	1 861 044	351 255	4 013 005	6 712 776

Source: Istat 1999

2.3 Analysis and processing of national data

2.3.1 Calibration

Data were calibrated in order to be consistent with the forest extent of T1 for the years 1990 and 2000. For this reason, calibration was carried out on the reclassified and estimated data for 1990 and 2000.

2.3.2 Estimation and forecasting

Estimations for 2000 were calculated throughout linear extrapolation of 1990 and 1999 data.

2.4 Reclassification into FRA 2005 classes

Table: Reclassification (Percentage allocation) into FRA 2005 classes

	Percentage of a National class belonging to a FRA Class
National Classes of Ownership	Public Ownership	Private Ownership	Other or unspecified Ownership
Percentage	%	%	%
State	100
Municipalities	100
Others institutions			100
Private		100

Calibration was then carried out on the reclassified and estimated data.

The percentage of private, public and other forest on total forest area as given by the ISTAT, was applied to the total forest area as given by table 1.

Year	Forest T1 (ha)	Forest Istat (ha)	Public Istat (ha)	% of tot	Private Istat (ha)	% of tot	Others Istat (ha)	% of tot
1990	7 785 579	6 659 082	2 318 903	35	3 985 862	60	354 317	5
2000	8 707 046	6 718 742	2 351 140	35	4 016 243	60	351 359	5

Calibrated data

Year	Public (ha)	Private (ha)	Others (ha)
1990	2 711 185	4 660 138	414 256
2000	3 046 922	5 204 786	455 388

2.5 Data for National reporting table T2

	Area (1000 hectares)
FRA 2005 Categories	Forest		Other wooded land
	1990	2000	1990	2000
Public ownership	2 711	3 046	n.a.	n.a.
Private ownership	4 660	5 205	n.a.	n.a.
Other ownership	414	455	n.a.	n.a.
TOTAL	7 786	8 707	n.a.	n.a.

2.6 Comments to National reporting table T2